How to Use AI Video Generator in MyEdit
One sentence in, a short clip out, with your pick of video model.
Updated Aug. 17, 2026 · 8 min read
In a hurry? Use the AI Video Generator quick guide instead.
MyEdit's AI Video Generator builds a short video out of a sentence you type, in a browser tab, with nothing to install and no timeline to learn. You choose which video model does the work, say what happens in plain words, and hand it a photo or a clip to borrow the look from if you have one.
- Open AI Video Generator in MyEdit under Video Tools.
- Open the model list at the top of the panel and pick the model you want.
- Type what happens under Describe the story of your video.
- Optional: add a photo or clip under Reference Media.
- Type @ in your sentence and pick that reference from the list.
- Set Video Settings, click Generate, then play and download the clip from Recent Gen.
Steps to Use AI Video Generator
Step 1: Open AI Video Generator
AI Video Generator sits under Video Tools in MyEdit's top menu, and opening it is the whole setup: no install, no project file, no version to keep updated. Everything you touch is in the column on the left, and the right-hand side is there to browse while you think. Inspiration is a wall of clips other people have generated, each one stamped with the model that made it, which is a quicker way to learn what a model is good at than reading about it. Recent Gen, next to it, is where your own jobs show up once you start one.
Step 2: Pick the Model That Shoots It
This is the one choice that changes everything after it, so it is worth ten seconds rather than none. Open the model list at the top of the panel and you get a shelf of them, featured ones first and the rest under MORE MODELS, each with a line saying what it is built for: cinematic visuals with smooth motion, native audio and multilingual lip-sync, strong motion control for realistic scenes, generation that leans on reference images. Read those lines rather than the version numbers, and treat the pick as reversible. Your sentence stays where it is, so running it through a different model is a click and another go, not a rewrite.
Step 3: Write What Happens
Now you do the directing, and this box is the whole script. Click into Describe the story of your video and type the action: ours was one line, a dog is walking on the street. Short works, but there is far more room than you need, the counter under the box runs to 4,900 characters, and the difference between a clip that looks like your idea and a generic one is usually the details you bothered to name, the camera move, the light, the mood, the time of day. MyEdit leaves its own example sitting in the empty box, so there is a template to copy if you would rather not start from a blank page.
Step 4: Add a Reference Image (Optional)
Words alone will get you a video, so you can skip this. Do it anyway when the look in your head is easier to show than to describe: a place, a lighting style, a character. Click the upload area in Reference Media and pick a photo or a clip. MyEdit uses these as style references or as visual elements in the result, and ours was a night shot of a busy city crossing. Once it lands it gets a name of its own, @image1, and an Image/Video tile appears beside it so you can add more. The small x on a thumbnail takes one back off again, so nothing here is a commitment.
Step 5: Point Your Sentence at the Reference
Uploading a reference does not, by itself, tell the model what to do with it, and this is the step people miss. Type @ anywhere in your sentence and a Select a reference image/video list opens with everything you have added. Click the one you mean and it drops into the sentence as a tag, so ours ends up reading: a dog is walking on the street @image1. The sentence and the photo are now one instruction instead of two, which is why the dog in our clip is walking through that exact crossing and not some other street.
Step 6: Set the Clip Up and Generate
Video Settings decides what the finished file actually is, and it is much quicker to get right here than to run the whole thing again. There are four rows plus sound: Select mode (Fast, Mini, or Pro), Select resolution, Select duration for a five, ten, or fifteen second clip, Select an aspect ratio (16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Reels and Shorts, 1:1 for square feeds), and Audio settings to switch sound on or off. Pick the shape you are actually going to post in, since that is decided now rather than later. We left the defaults alone, five seconds at 16:9, and clicked Generate. The number beside it is what this run costs.
MyEdit moves the job over to Recent Gen and puts a live estimate on the card while it works, about four minutes for ours. You are not meant to sit and watch it, and the message says so: keep making more videos, wander off to another tool, or close the tab entirely. MyEdit emails you when the clip is finished and keeps it in My Library either way.
The Result
When it lands, the clip is sitting in the pane with its length printed on the thumbnail. Play it full size before you do anything else. Five seconds of watching is the quickest way to decide whether the sentence needs a word changed or the model needs swapping. The download icon in the corner saves the file to your device, and whether you download it or not, every clip you generate stays in My Library, so a closed tab has never lost one yet.
And that is one typed sentence turned into something you can post. Write Another One →
FAQ About AI Video Generator
No. The description is the only thing the tool insists on, and Generate lights up as soon as you have typed something. Reference Media is there for when the look matters more than the words, a specific place, a particular character, a lighting style you would struggle to write down. Plenty of clips never need one.
Go by the line under each name rather than the version number. One is described as cinematic visuals with smooth motion, another as native audio and multilingual lip-sync, another as strong motion control for realistic scenes, another as generation built around reference images. Match the description to what your clip is about, and if the result is not it, pick a different model and run the same sentence again. The featured models sit at the top of the list, the rest under MORE MODELS.
It ties a specific uploaded file to a specific part of your sentence, the way tagging someone in a post does. Uploading a reference puts it on the shelf, typing @ and picking it tells the model to use it, right there in the sentence. MyEdit's own example in the empty prompt box shows the pattern: one reference for the subject, another for the setting.
No, and you should not bother. Once the job starts it lives in Recent Gen with an estimate of how long is left, and MyEdit sends you an e-mail when the video is finished. The clip goes to My Library, so you can shut everything, come back later, and it is still there.
Yes. MyEdit runs in a browser rather than as an app you install, so the same tool works on a phone, a tablet, or a laptop with nothing to download. That also means the render happens on MyEdit's side, not on your device, so an older phone is no slower at it than a new one.
